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1976 Paul McCartney wraps up the Wings Over America tour at the Forum in Los Angeles, marking the last time the ex-Beatle tours until 1989.
1975 At a stop in Vancouver on his Welcome To My Nightmare tour, Alice Cooper falls from the stage and breaks six ribs.
1975 With vocalist Marty Balin back in the band, Jefferson Starship release Red Octopus, which thanks to the hit "Miracles," outsells every other Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship album.
1973 George Harrison's album Living In The Material World hits #1 in America.
1973 B.W. Stevenson records "My Maria."
1972 Smokey Robinson appears onstage for the last time with his group The Miracles in Washington, DC.
1970 Ringo Starr records Beaucoups Of Blues.
1970 Elvis Presley releases On Stage: February 1970.
1970 Chubby Checker and three passengers are arrested in Niagara Falls after police discover marijuana and other unidentified capsules in the rocker's car. The charges are later dropped, however.
1968 Elvis Presley records "If I Can Dream" and "Memories."
1967 Arthur Conley's "Sweet Soul Music" is certified gold.
1967 John Entwistle of The Who marries his first wife, childhood sweetheart Alison Wise.
1967 Aretha Franklin records "Chain Of Fools."
1965 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles release "The Tracks Of My Tears."
1965 The Kinks play a show in Springfield, Illinois, that they later learn was organized by John Wayne Gacy, who would become a notorious serial killer.
Tiffany Begins Her Mall Tour
198715-year-old Tiffany starts her Mall Tour at the Bergen Mall in Paramus, New Jersey, performing what in November will be her #1 hit, "I Think We're Alone Now."
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2016 After a trial in which the three living members of Led Zeppelin testified, a jury rules that they are not guilty of plagiarizing the intro of "Stairway To Heaven" from the 1968 song "Taurus" by the band Spirit. In 2018, the case is sent back to trial on a technicality, but is upheld in a 2020 ruling.
1994 The stage musical Copacabana (based on Barry Manilow's song) opens in London.
1984 Duran Duran's "The Reflex" hits #1 in America. This version is a remix of the album cut done by Chic's Nile Rodgers.
1979 The Charlie Daniels Band release "The Devil Went Down To Georgia." Daniels plays the fiddle parts for both Johnny and the Devil; he says the Devil part is "just a bunch of noise."
1962 Ray Charles' landmark album Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music hits #1 in America.
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